androgenesis

1. 1.

   male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization

   Synonymsandrogeny

   Broaderparthenogenesis

Other forms of androgenesis

plural

androgenesises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about androgenesis

What does androgenesis mean?

androgenesis means "male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization".

How many syllables are in androgenesis?

androgenesis has 5 syllables: an-dro-ge-ne-sis. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for androgenesis?

Close synonyms include androgeny. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is androgenesis a common word?

androgenesis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.